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The Saviour-Industrial Complex
There are two kinds of executive in the final interview. One asks for the diagnostic—the operating model, four years of financials, time to return with a counter-proposal. The other looks the room in the eye and says yes. This piece is about the machinery behind that choice: not why boards keep making it, but why the system is designed to make it for them. I coined a term for that machinery in this piece. Part one of two.
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The moment of appointment is the moment of the fraud, if there is to be one. An executive who pitches a transformation they privately judge unworkable, in…
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